Letters to the editor

asa[e] - piggy's parting pearls

Hare Krsna beloved Gurudeva AGTSP PAMHO

I hope this meets You in very good health.

HpS - Actually we are, agtSP, probably just like you. Suffering from the waves of Maya and not yet strong enough to completely avoid being pulled by them, but does seem that every day we get better!

Thank you.

Gurudeva. I was recalling that once You said that You put one quite [quote] from TOM BROWN, and one of the participants said oh Tom Brown is SO quise [wise]

May You be so kind and share here with us some quotes from Tom Brown, Buck White and maybe Uncle Gismo?

Thanks in advance

Ys

CMDD

ASA - We think, agtSP, that Piggy has been collecting them in "Piggy's Parting Pearls". Some them are so fabulously outrageous that they really fit Abraham Lincoln's comment:

"If you remain silent people will think you are a fool, but if you speak you remove all doubt."

At the end of a PPTX presentation on 'Hamlet and Arjuna', maybe the first, at a university in Chile. We needed a citation to finish the show.

So, we included a slide with a quote from Tom Brown, "Those who do not hear the lessons of history will be forced to repeat them". One very respected professor noted down the quote and we were terrified that they would ask us who Tom Brown was. We were sure someone said, that but could not remember who.

Piggy as Treasurer, Administrator:

• What you don't know you cannot reveal under torture.
• Eliminate the middle man.
• Never wake up a big dog with a short stick.
• Ask people to write their name, not sign their name, because their signature will probably be incomprehensible.

TB:

Lord Acton said, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely", but even though that is a very, very, very respected phrase, most people don't know the next line he wrote, "Therefore almost all powerful men have been bad men".

See - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dalberg-Acton,_1st_Baron_Acton

asa(e) vad,, Sannyasa,, dress.

[12/10, 12:02 PM] Srinivasa Das Hou: Guru Maharaja, can you please tell me which store did you buy your dhoti cloth at? Is it online? I looked at Joan but no peach or apricot. They have orange which looks brighter than what you use.

Also what percentages are cotton and polyester?

[12/10, 12:52 PM] HP Swami - Prof HHR: It is 4-meters, yards (?), per set, top and bottom. 

I buy on line - cotton-polyester blend or 60/40 cloth ie 60% cotton and 40% polyester. 

It is called broadcloth sometimes. Look at comments to see if it is relatively thick.

Color is peach or something but usually not orange.

If you buy 20-meters at one time ie five sets you get it half price.

Comes by mail ok.

We don't keep shirts, just use same material chodar or long and short sleeve t-shirts.

Shirts without pockets are best if someone gives us one to use for a special event and then take it back.

We have several sets now. 

Will divest to b'caris and Sannyasa candidates soon.

Think we got some good quality set(s) for special events.

🙂🙂🙂

asa[e[; DVAD, Sannyasa Dharma, Politics

AGTSP. paoho.... this is an eternal story. how a sannyasi should relate to politics.

"To achieve the highest success in life by becoming a gosvāmī and then a pure devotee of the Lord, one must follow the instructions ... given by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī has given many ... books ... One should follow these instructions very strictly. Then it will be easier to make one’s life successful. Hare Kṛṣṇa." https://vedabase.io/en/library/noi/preface/#bb5772

"One who enters the householder's life can execute the duties of a family man because he has already been trained for this job in the brahmacarya-āśrama. And after fifty years of age the householder retires from family life and prepares for the life of sannyāsa.", https://vedabase.io/en/library/lob/32/#bb1582457

So, Goswami: man, woman, child; should reduce politics. yes, in kutichaka sannyasi lives alone near home. grand daughters may bring prasad daily. he may give political decisions for the family but but should turn the politics, business, work, more and more over to the next generation. otherwise it can become 'foul means of livelihood'. the 'next generation are not old fools like us'.

now [23 12 01] all HpS/HHR politics and $$$ based in the ASA Blog!

c u there! 😍

asa[e]; asa verse book

[12/1/2023 7:39 AM] anandana Swami: https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/6/37/

I chose this verse and purport because I like the freedom of devotional service and preaching

🙏🏼😊

asa - this verse is so key for us also. in the mode of goodness we have free will to chose between different material choices, no? and if we chose sattva guna and if we do it enough then KRSNA sees that and sends a guru?

WhatsApp:

"[11/22/2023 2:54 PM] R R D D: Hare Krishna maharaj ji 

My Pranam’s on your lotus 🪷 feet 👣 🙏

How are you maharaj ji

Sorry Maharaji for disturbing you 🙏

Maharaji I would like to invite you at my home for prasadam on Monday noon 🕛 

Maharaji I am begging in front of you to please accept the invitation.

Your servant 

R R D D 

From 

ISKCON Bharata-varsa Sanga"

HpS/ASA - AgtSP!!! paoho.... thank you for your kind attention! We are overwhelmed.

First is that we just got here to ISKCON Hugh's Town and have moved from one room to another in just two nights, and engaged very enthusiastically 👍 in the Academic Calendar of Romapada Swami's LOB seminar and Temple fesitivals!

Ooof. 🙂

Maybe schedule for a little bit later in the future???

In general, we almost 100% have to work on our Calendar etc. Here in our Blog to keep everyone on board.

Is O.K.?

HpS/ASA

AgtSP

Paoho

&

BW.

We have 75-10/12 years old body. We have been expecting, planning, to leave this material, possible spiritualized, body at 76-years old. That time has come.

So, we are consolidating our Sankirtan, personal, legal, social, institutional relations, day by day. What consolidating we have done, agtSP, so far, is pretty substantial, but we should try to do more. This is Srila Prabhupada's example, no?

Our editing and publishing on our Blog of past and recent letters direct to us is part of that eg. trying to make public all of our administrative involvement in the Peru Yatra. That is what an old man should do, no?

Of course, we have made mistakes even due to increasing dementia, so we sincerely apologize. Several devotees have misunderstood our situation and we have posted some things that may have been too confidential for our Blog, but in some respect we can say that we feel it is a fault of the current Krsna consciousness movement that this knowledge of Sannyasa, and how to relate to it, is not common to even to leaders who are institutionally and socially responsible for so many others.

So, we certainly want to correct any mistakes we have inadvertently made, but anything that is sent in private letters that you feel is too confidential for arenas like our ASA Blog, should be noted as such BEFORE speaking, writing it, especially anything dealing with women [politics (money)].

🐒🐒🐒🦍 As far as we are concerned whatever we have posted has been about 70- 80% correct and should be on the Blog.

The Blog is for ASA Friends and Members. If others read here then it is at their own risk, whether they are envious hogs and dogs [https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/madhya/25/283/] 😂 or members of fanatical Kanistha Adhikari guru cults. [Which includes some so called Scientists].

After rereading this and editing it and praying at the lotus feet of Srila Prabhupada, it seems a little strong, but otherwise people complain that we are not clear about the confidentility of our communications.

Thank you.

Please respond here, in the 🐸 ASA Blog with any questions, comments, complaints or donations.

HpSwami

ASA Head

et al.